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        Ruth Butterfield

        Centre Director and Senior Research Fellow

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      Dr Ruth Butterfield is Centre Director of SEI Oxford. Her background is in agriculture, water and climate change impacts and adaptation. She is currently contributing to and developing the SEI Oxford’s weADAPT platform.

      Ruth’s specific contribution is the development of climate change vulnerability assessments for countries involved in ACCCA projects using GIS, models and multiple data sources.

      She has reviewed national programmes on impact and adaptation for the UK Climate Impacts Programme; and developed strategies for making adaptation policy in the agriculture and water sectors for Defra’s Objective setting for climate change adaptation policy project.

      Previously she has conducted research on: household water use for UK national assessment of climate change and demand for water (CCDEW); seasonal climate forecasting in southern African and potential implications for sustainable livelihoods (CLOUD); and multiple stresses for a study on Scoping uncertainty in the Social cost of carbon: A closer look at uncertainty (SCCU).

      Previously at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, she worked on two of the largest EU projects on climate change impacts and European agriculture, CLIVARA and CLAIRE.

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      Publications by Ruth Butterfield

      • A just transition in the meat sector: why, who, and how?
      • Una transición justa en el sector de la carne: ¿por qué, quién y cómo?
      • Surveying perceptions and practices of high-end climate change
      • Enabling Climate Science Use to Better Support Resilience and Adaptation Practice
      • Improving the co-production of climate services for agriculture: a case study from Nigeria
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      Perspectives by Ruth Butterfield

      • Reflections on the first two decades of SEI Oxford
      • Is the new IPCC report a game changer for adaptation?

      Featured stories with Ruth Butterfield

      • SEI Oxford event addresses the future of climate change adaptation
      • Collaboration to bridge the gap between climate science and adaptation policy
      • Working in Tandem: focusing on collaboration to link climate science and climate policy
      • Inspiring climate adaptation action in Africa's cities
      • Explore the new weADAPT
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      Projects and tools with Ruth Butterfield

      • Adaptation at Altitude
      • FRACTAL
      • PLACARD
      • IMPRESSIONS
      • weADAPT
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